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7/29/2019 An Everywhere: A little book about reading, Heather Reyes, Published by Oxygen Books, 10 April 2014
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A delightful, inspiring and utterly compelling defence of the joys (and sometimes
uses) of reading that will appeal to readers of Susan Hill's Howards End is on
the Landing: A year of reading from hom e
'I have so much enjoyed An Everywhere. It is a brillianttravel guide to the city of books: the city we hold within us,and the one we share with all its other citizens. I loveHeather's passion for reading and the blend of erudition andintimacy that she brings to the discussion of what reading isand what books can do within a life. It is such a truthful book,honest about panic and anguish, and fascinating about whathappens when the panic ebbs and the reader continues.'
Orange Prize-winning novelist Helen Dunmore
During several months of cancer treatment, the writer decides to
turn a necessary evil into an opportunity: the luxury of readingwhatever takes her fancy.
An Everywhere: a little book about reading is a quietly
passionate and witty defence of the joys and consolations of
reading in both the difficult and day-to-day aspects of our lives.
* Heather Reyes is the editor of Oxygen Books' acclaimed city-pickseries of urban travel guides andthe author ofZade, longlisted for the Prince Maurice Prize with Zadie Smith and Joanna Briscoe. Hernew novel Miranda Roadis published in April 2014.
* A short but in-depth book aimed at the general reader and that requires no prior reading of thebooks mentioned.
* Links to the Government's current 'Books for Prescriptions' bibliotherapy programme for those withphysical or mental illness.
* Extensive PR and book blog and book group campaign. Oxygen's city-pickseries has been
reviewed in the Guardian, Times, Mail on Sunday, Financial Times, Telegraph, Independent, etc.
'There were so many passages which stick in my mind: the albatross that could never have been a
seagull; the Indian man who tries to steal a piece of fruit and is lynched for it, and within this the
discussion about how stories are told and how their true force is transmitted to others; the patient in
the hospital who does not want to die, and the passages in Measure for Measure which sear into the
imagination as they grapple with death; all these and many, many more.
I've heard it said that serious illness is not a state but a country, which one enters as if through a
secret door, never before seen. It is always there, even though we are not always its inhabitants. Istarted by thinking thatAn Everywhere was a guide to the city of books, but now I think it is also a
guide to that hidden country, the most fearsome and remote of all; the one we all dread and must all
one day enter.' Helen Dunmore
Sales: [email protected]: 0208 9965764Distribution: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN Tel:+44(0)845 4589911
www.oxygenbooks.co.uk
AN EVERYWHERE: A Little book About Reading
Heather Reyes
Published 10 April 2014 ISBN 9780992636401 8.99 paperback 180 pp
BIC CODE: D Literature/ Literary Studies V Health/Personal Development
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